Alia Malek is an assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism Review and a writer in New York City.

Alia Malek's Salon stories

Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007 03:21 PST

When did we become like Syria?

As I watched a surreal torture case unfold in a U.S. courtroom, the line between dictatorship and democracy seemed to disappear.
Saturday, Jul 28, 2007 04:58 PDT

Bush civil rights nominee under fire

A White House plan to install a DOJ official with a lousy reputation on workers' rights to the powerful EEOC falters as Barack Obama and former DOJ employees protest.
Friday, Mar 30, 2007 04:45 PDT

Bush's long history of politicizing justice

It's not only the U.S. attorneys who are threatened by partisan politics. Since Day One, the Bush administration has been quietly dismantling the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.
Friday, Aug 4, 2006 05:30 PDT

How Lebanon rescued me

I fled America for Beirut's cultural freedom. Now I watch as bombs destroy my refuge -- and the best hope for a viable Middle East democracy.

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